Protus3 would like to thank John Reaves and John Dailey for including Protus3 in the 2018 NCACLEA Summer Conference. The conference occurred June 12-14, 2018, in Greensboro, NC. John Reaves is the Executive Director of NCACLEA. John Dailey is President of NCACLEA and Chief of Police, Duke University and Duke University Hospital. Campus law enforcement professionals from North Carolina and …
Protus3 supported and sponsored the University of North Carolina System at the inaugural UNC System Safety and Security Conference at UNC Asheville. Chris Peterson represented Protus3. The plan for the program is to connect over 200 safety and security professionals throughout the system on an annual basis. The program included tracks for Clery, Student Affairs, Law Enforcement, Legal, Title IX …
Protus3 is a long-term supporter of the NC Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (NCACLEA) both as a presenter and a Corporate Sponsor. This year’s 2018 NCACLEA Winter Conference was hosted by Wake Tech Public Safety department at the WTCC main campus in Raleigh, NC. The NCACLEA does an amazing job of promoting professional standards and supporting the campus law …
Clery Act “Game Changer”– What Is It? Why Does It Matter? Security professionals inherently know the steps to make a case – one thing leads to another and then connect the dots. At colleges and universities, security leadership is acutely, and sometimes painfully, aware that they play a large role in the institution’s Clery Act compliance and its VAWA amendments. …
If the primary role of an institution of higher learning is to educate and their greatest asset is their reputation, how can it be reasonable that compliance with the requirements under the Clery Act and Title IX be so lacking in resources and emphasis? This is all the more dumbfounding when one considers that a significant portion of an institution’s …
The maximum fine for any violation of the Jeanne Clery Act has increased from $35,000 to $54,789. The new fines posted by the U.S. Department of Education in the Federal Register are effective for civil penalties imposed on or after August 1, 2016, whose associated violations occurred after November 2, 2015. The costs for non-compliance just got higher. In recent …
Campus Safety Magazine published “3 Traits of a Successful Clery Compliance Coordinator”, an article that highlights some of the challenges and nuances facing institutions and Clery Coordinators trying to comply with its requirements. It also drives home that elevating compliance from a departmental/individual response to a coordinated institutional response will drive success. In the business world, this seems like such …
The first role of any organization’s leadership is the protection of the organization. How leaders accomplish this and the traits that make great leaders successful is better left to industry experts and leadership coaches. In higher education, reputation is an institution’s greatest asset. Reputation attracts the talent (students, faculty/staff, business collaboration, and academic and non-academic recruitment) and resources (research, innovation, …
It appears that the Department of Education (ED) is prepared to assess Penn State the largest penalty under the Clery Act to date. Read the entire article here. Not only is the fine larger than other fines we have seen assessed, it is exponentially larger. What does this mean for the many other institutions that are currently under investigation or …
The Dallas Morning News recently published an article entitled “Sex assault reports at Baylor nearly quadrupled in 2015, report says”. Read the full article here. What can we learn from Baylor University? If campus leaders do not set the example and provide the necessary resources, it is nearly impossible to engage the population in a comprehensive and effective manner. A …